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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Yeah. If you are the player, it is simple. Pissing away 6 million to save 300 000. How many years does it take to make that up?
Oversimplified, but... Say you are hanging around doing nothing and really would like 20 bucks. I am the only guy allowed to offer you money, and I offer you 19. Do you take the 19 or tell me to pound sand?
You have a 20 year potential career and think it is worthwhile to pass up 20 bucks one year because you think you can make a dollar more per year.
The team (especially Toronto) will make money. Odds are already that they don’t win the cup. Smart management generally bases decisions on probabilities over technical possibilities.
A year off for the player due to pride over a small percentage of earnings is idiotic.
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For the team it is simple. You have 17.8 million in cap space available. Yearly net profits for the team are estimated around 76 million dollars. The team is holding out because they do not want to pay one half of one percent of their yearly profits (even less since they will not have to pay the full 300K.
And what do they get for not paying the 300K? As mentioned above they get the 300K. In a world where they do not sign Nylander to any contract, they probably save around 6 million dollars. This is real money now, that is equal to 7.8 percent of profits. Perhaps the money making strategy for the Leafs is to not pay anyone.
Downside to this strategy is whatever revenue they miss out on from a playoff run that is longer with Nylander than it is without him. But I am not surprised by the scheer incompetence of the Leafs, a normal team would pay the money and try to win a Cup, but not the Leafs. Idiots.
But to me it is odd to be driving such a hard bargain over 300K when your corporation makes 76 million a year. But I guess this type of logic is why the Leafs have been so successful over the years.